. Bird's eye views of society . At the Sea-fide. At the Sea-side. EOPLE at the fea-fideare for the moft partintent upon doingnothing, and theobject naturally is todo this in as greata variety of ways aspoffible. A dazzlinghot fun glitteringupon the waves, andalways in ones eyes,and the meafured roarof the lea rolling in or rolling out, and perpetually inones ears, combine to reduce the fatigued cockney, as hereclines upon the lands, and gazes lazily upon the ocean,to a ftate of the moft helplefs inactivity. The monotonywearies yet fafcinates him; and it is difficult to do other-. wife than fta
. Bird's eye views of society . At the Sea-fide. At the Sea-side. EOPLE at the fea-fideare for the moft partintent upon doingnothing, and theobject naturally is todo this in as greata variety of ways aspoffible. A dazzlinghot fun glitteringupon the waves, andalways in ones eyes,and the meafured roarof the lea rolling in or rolling out, and perpetually inones ears, combine to reduce the fatigued cockney, as hereclines upon the lands, and gazes lazily upon the ocean,to a ftate of the moft helplefs inactivity. The monotonywearies yet fafcinates him; and it is difficult to do other-. wife than ftare in a vacant manner at the moaning,foaming, fad fea waves. To fling pebbles, at deliberateintervals, into the fea, is an occupation perhaps the beftfuited to the fituation, the effort to throw while one is ina fitting pofture taxing to the utmoft the phyfical energy,while the ftrain upon the attention required in aiming ata particular creft of an advancing wave is as much as themind can conveniently bear under the circumftances. Reading is fuppofed to be a favourite paftime at thefea-fide, but this is a miftake ; for although there is alwaysa circulating library, and large quantities of novels, maga-zines, and books of travel are carried down to the beach eachday by the ladies, they dont read them. They may opena volume, perhaps, and then they go to fleep for only purfuit of men and women, belides bathers, islooking at one another, and at the fea. Every time yougo out you meet every one elfe, and you very foon learn 29 the whole population off by heart, whic
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